FisifunKododada:


So, you cross an entire Yoruba region to become indigenous inside the same Yoruba region? Are you okay in the head?

Read you won't read

All you yoruba do is to leave your state and come to Lagos to claim false indigenes we edos would soon drive you lots to ogbmosho from were your fathers came from


Read yoruba man


Yes British left Europe to rule Nigeria


So was difficult with benins ruling Lagos when it's even a close neigbour compare to England and Nigeria in distance

Alba3:
First it was Bini, now it's British; later it's going to be Biafra. This Rufai and his station need psychiatric examination. He's been looking for anything 'B' to own Lagos and anything to trend on twitter.

He doesn't even know the difference between Lagos State and Lagos colony, which is less than 10% of present Lagos state. In his efforts to keep downgrading Lagos indigenous people, he has been promoting fringe individuals that came to Lagos island: Prince Ado, the slave masters (Britons), and the returnees like Saros. He forgot Prince Ado met Already established kingdom of Awori-Yorubas. The colonizers also met Yoruba kings kosoko and Dosunmu and their people in Lagos Island.

You know say Eko gba ole o gba ole, imagine a lazy journalist like Rufai telling me that Lagos is still a colony of the British.

CBR100:



even a beni man go know say na nonsense u dey yarn
Benin no claim ore
Benin no claim sagamu
Benin no claim on do
Buh benin go come jump all dis settlement without claiming only to be claiming Lagos??
no be ment be dat

Benin claim ondo ekiti, ogun, ore

Get your fact right if you need the old historical document of the white men documenting how the ogun people feared and obeyed the Oba benin command let me know

Benin decided not to rule over ogun people because there was no economic significant the benins saw in their land


Let me know if you need the document how the benins oppressed the ijebu people

The name ijebu was gotten from how the benins captured the ijebu Poople for human sacrifice and when they dumped them in the Benin rivers they make a sound as liking to
Tumbu which the European corrupted from the benins as ijebu


A yoruba man named Samuel wrote about it in
1897 not a benin man

If you need the document just let me know

Thebadpolitican:


Benin claim ondo ekiti, ogun, ore

Get your fact right if you need the old historical document of the white men documenting how the ogun people feared and obeyed the Oba benin command let me know

Benin decided not to rule over ogun people because there was no economic significant the benins saw in their land


Let me know if you need the document how the benins oppressed the ijebu people

The name ijebu was gotten from how the benins captured the ijebu Poople for human sacrifice and when they dumped them in the Benin rivers they make a sound as liking to
Tumbu which the European corrupted from the benins as ijebu


A yoruba man named Samuel wrote about it in
1897 not a benin man

If you need the document just let me know

I stopped reading immediate I saw Benin claim over ekiti lyk from where.....hahahahaha
even Oyo empire neva claim control of ekiti
how ekiti and benin take relate

because one usesless Samuel wrote on useless book does it makes it right
tell which king of Benin rule over ondo state
abi u think u can just fabricate stories from your head
there was no time in history dat benin kingdom was more powerful than the Oyo (Yoruba empire)

nah Oyo and Dahomey from Benin republic dey compete

ooh abi u are mistaking dahomey kingdom and Benin (from edo state togeda )
I laugh a again go and read history well and stop mixing things togeda

This Rufai is showing his incompetence everyday. Was there no one occupying that area before the British? A simple question he would have asked himself before posting this. If that's his argument then it's safe to say Nigeria in it's entirety is for the British, because we are once a colony to them.

Iamgrey5:
This is Lagos island not Lagos State.

Just like Oyo state is different from Oyo town.

Enugu town is different from Enugu state

Lagos State is a Creation of the Nigerian military government.

By the way, there is nothing contentious in saying Lagos State is Yoruba land.

The whole of Nigeria once belonged to Royal Niger company as a private property. It doesn't mean there were no indigenous Hasuas in Kano or indigenous Igbos in Anambra at that time.

raskymonojendor:

Eti osa : Edge of the lagoon

Lekki derived from Lecqi (a Portuguese settler).

What you said is so inconsequential like the INEC result stop living in self denial and pick a book

Here are some translation from the Portuguese which is quite different from your own shady imagination


Ekki which means market in benin
Lekki was the area which trade took place between the Europeans and the locals( benins, ijebu, aworis and Co) in Lagos pre colonization before trade later moved to badargry


Eti osa = which means the power of God in benin

Oshodin = is a name in benin, one of the military commander who invaded Lagos for the Oba of benin

Eko= camp, Lagos full title is called ekonuame
The camp of waters
Ekoosodin = military camp of general osodin

CBR100:


I stopped reading immediate I saw Benin claim over ekiti lyk from where.....hahahahaha
even Oyo empire neva claim control of ekiti
how ekiti and benin take relate

because one usesless Samuel wrote on useless book does it makes it right
tell which king of Benin rule over ondo state
abi u think u can just fabricate stories from your head
there was no time in history dat benin kingdom was more powerful than the Oyo (Yoruba empire)

nah Oyo and Dahomey from Benin republic dey compete

ooh abi u are mistaking dahomey kingdom and Benin (from edo state togeda )
I laugh a again go and read history well and stop mixing things togeda

The benins forces that was stationed to help ekiti defend her self defeated the oyo invading force in ekiti during the parakpo war

If you need a written document on that let me know it was also also written by an eye witness a yoruba man who saw the war unfold in 1897

Benin dominance over the yoruba people can never be over emphasized

You happen not to read

I would urge you to do a quick search on goggle, on benin imprelism over yoruba people

CBR100:



na dis talk sef dey vex yoruba , yoruba nation is one ( wat is the meaning of owners of Lagos state )
there are many towns in yorubaland and it is meant for all Yoruba , just lyk the whole biafra is meant for all Igbo

A man from Abia living in Owerri cannot tell visitors living in Owerri to go without the approval of ndi Owerri,this is just plain reality.
No matter how you want to paint it, there are real indigenous people in Lagos as a place, they don't have any issues with any Tribe, Apc should stop using People from other states including other regions to cause trouble with their goons.

This Rufai is going Mad

Massiveglory:
Little boi go and learn your history. Rufai has properly and truthfully schooled you.

School gullible one like you so British carried Lagos on their deck when coming or they didn't meet humans habitats.if you were told about things commonsense you come to activate not just keyed into it.because he work at TV station doesn't make him knowledgeable than you

Mumu
How on earth Lagos is own by The British 😂 😂 😂
Very soon they will say Ogun State is no man's land
Àwọn Bastards

Johnthum:
Tinubu and his urchins will not like this news. Tinubu and his urchins right now

tyinfinity:
Yoruba own Bini or Edo .when Onvoranwe their king disrespect alafin .the Alafin cursed him and he misbehaved and killed Portuguese that came on treaty mission.he was banished and died in exile.later Bini people went to oyo and beg alaafin to forgive them.because the entire Edo and Benin have been completely wipe out by the Portuguese due to the curse by Oba Alaafin .they were forgiven and Alaafin appeal to the Portuguese to stop the massacre

U made no sense.

The British scavengers never developed Nigeria nor Lagos, they only built things that helped them govern or move stolen wealth to their own country.

This Oseni will say anything just to prove a point

nonhuman:
Chocho cho when jungle mature now them no go see you, you can only burn one or two shops in the wee hours of the night because you are coward, after burning the government will still pay even double

like they pay double to Jos crisis victims ( against Igbo) abi?

He saying rubbished since he doesn't know his own history working at TV station doesn't make him knowledgeable than some of us,not the gullible one. They even said mongo park discovered river Niger, river wey people done they do fishery before he was born

Thebadpolitican:


The benins forces that was stationed to help ekiti defend her self defeated the oyo invading force in ekiti during the parakpo war

If you need a written document on that let me know it was also also written by an eye witness a yoruba man who saw the war unfold in 1897

Benin dominance over the yoruba people can never be over emphasized

You happen not to read

I would urge you to do a quick search on goggle, on benin imprelism over yoruba people

throughtout the 16years civil war (in no place was being mentioned ).....not even as peacemaker or anything

d only external.effort where dat of emir of sokoto and emir of bida which also fail to end the war....na the British dat was later able to create a cease fire....after the cease fire ekiti father their troops at imesi ile while ibadan station their at ikirun


OYO empire is too powerful for a kingdom lyk benin to be interfering in their war who born monkey

a lot of mistakes in your write up nobody won the war and the war is not just 1897, it was over 16years of conflict and war
the war was so big dat the ilorin conderate join, ilesha too join
and in no instance did Benin interfere who born monkey

Thebadpolitican:


The benins forces that was stationed to help ekiti defend her self defeated the oyo invading force in ekiti during the parakpo war

If you need a written document on that let me know it was also also written by an eye witness a yoruba man who saw the war unfold in 1897

Benin dominance over the yoruba people can never be over emphasized

You happen not to read

I would urge you to do a quick search on goggle, on benin imprelism over yoruba people

you are deceiving yourself with Benin
Benin is a kingdom while Oyo is an empire (I hope you know the difference)

and it was alaafin oyo oranmiyan dat form the royal family of Benin kingdom (through one of his son)

in no tym in history does benin kingdom have a tenth of the power of Oyo kingdom ........plssss go and read more about Oyo empire and you will know being kingdom is jist lyk and outpost to oyo. empire

Iamgrey5:
This is Lagos island not Lagos State.

Just like Oyo state is different from Oyo town.

Enugu town is different from Enugu state

Lagos State is a Creation of the Nigerian military government.

By the way, there is nothing contentious in saying Lagos State is Yoruba land.

The whole of Nigeria once belonged to Royal Niger company as a private property. It doesn't mean there were no indigenous Hasuas in Kano or indigenous Igbos in Anambra at that time.

You’re absolutely right.

What’s fascinating is that: ‘Rufai Oseni’ looks like a Yoruba name. And it shows most Yoruba people don’t know their own history and lack basic understanding about colonialism - for him to brazenly make such a lousy statement and share it publicly. Or perhaps, he’s just feigning ignorance - due to political affiliation. However, even with that, it’s an issue of ancestral land and since Yorubas have nowhere else apart from where they occupy in Nigeria - there has to be discretion and it should be Yoruba first.

That said, Lagos Island was forcefully signed away by King Dosunmu on a British warship, to British empire - with threats of heavy bombardment if he didn’t sign it. However, it was reclaimed back in 1921, in a court in London, when an Awori Idejo Chief, Chief Amodu Tijani, sued the British empire for forcefully taking the Land. He was represented by Herbert Macaulay and won - with £22,500 as compensation and the land was returned.

Attached are the pictures of the British war ship where King Dosunmu signed away the land under duress and pictures of Chief Amodu Tijani.

Lightorder:
the trash you wrote in upper case is disgusting.

Learn to remain where you belong, the gutters

You are a Son of NOBODY.

That's what I want you to know because you lack the ability to relate and respect people on public forum. If you had come from a good, rich and discipline home, most of your post wouldn't be found obnoxious and rude. You are just a nobody like your old man.

You need to think and find a way to take your children to where your father can't take to you in life.

And learn how to respect people.

Iamgrey5:
This is Lagos island not Lagos State.

Just like Oyo state is different from Oyo town.

Enugu town is different from Enugu state

Lagos State is a Creation of the Nigerian military government.

By the way, there is nothing contentious in saying Lagos State is Yoruba land.

The whole of Nigeria once belonged to Royal Niger company as a private property. It doesn't mean there were no indigenous Hasuas in Kano or indigenous Igbos in Anambra at that time.

Exactly. I don't know what Rufai is trying to impress us with irrelevant nonsense.

If we start bringing out all the documents that were signed with the British all over the country, no land will belong to anybody. The British are gone abeg. Make una talk betta thing. Rubbish.

Creeper:


You’re absolutely right.

What’s fascinating is that: ‘Rufai Oseni’ looks like a Yoruba name. And it shows most Yoruba people don’t know their own history and lack basic understanding about colonialism - for him to brazenly make such a lousy statement and share it publicly. Or perhaps, he’s just feigning ignorance - due to political affiliation. However, even with that, it’s an issue of ancestral land and since Yorubas have nowhere else apart from where they occupy in Nigeria - there has to be discretion and it should be Yoruba first.

That said, Lagos Island was forcefully signed away by King Dosunmu on a British warship, to British empire - with threats of heavy bombardment if he didn’t sign it. However, it was reclaimed back in 1921, in a court in London, when an Awori Idejo Chief, Chief Amodu Tijani, sued the British empire for forcefully taking the Land. He was represented by Herbert Macaulay and won - with £22,500 as compensation and the land was returned.

Attached are the pictures of the British war ship where King Dosunmu signed away the land under duress and pictures of Chief Amodu Tijani.

Fascinating story. Excellent.

CBR100:


you are deceiving yourself with Benin
Benin is a kingdom while Oyo is an empire (I hope you know the difference)

and it was alaafin oyo oranmiyan dat form the royal family of Benin kingdom (through one of his son)

in no tym in history does benin kingdom have a tenth of the power of Oyo kingdom ........plssss go and read more about Oyo empire and you will know being kingdom is jist lyk and outpost to oyo. empire

Look at this one.

Are you aware that the Benin Empire exchanged ambassadors with Portugal as early as the 1500s?

Are you aware that Benin city was one of the greatest and most beautiful cities IN THE WORLD in medieval times?

A city of which the UK Guardian wrote that:

''With its mathematical layout and earthworks longer than the Great Wall of China, Benin City was one of the best planned cities in the world when London was a place of ‘thievery and murder’.''

''Benin City, originally known as Edo, was once the capital of a pre-colonial African empire located in what is now southern Nigeria. The Benin empire was one of the oldest and most highly developed states in west Africa, dating back to the 11th century.

The Guinness Book of Records (1974 edition) described the walls of Benin City and its surrounding kingdom as the world’s largest earthworks carried out prior to the mechanical era. According to estimates by the New Scientist’s Fred Pearce, Benin City’s walls were at one point “four times longer than the Great Wall of China, and consumed a hundred times more material than the Great Pyramid of Cheops [in Egypt]”.

Situated on a plain, Benin City was enclosed by massive walls in the south and deep ditches in the north. Beyond the city walls, numerous further walls were erected that separated the surroundings of the capital into around 500 distinct villages.

Pearce writes that these walls “extended for some 16,000 km in all, in a mosaic of more than 500 interconnected settlement boundaries. They covered 6,500 sq km and were all dug by the Edo people … They took an estimated 150 million hours to construct, and are perhaps the largest single archaeological phenomenon on the planet”.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/18/story-of-cities-5-benin-city-edo-nigeria-mighty-medieval-capital-lost-without-trace

PLEASE, DON'T JOKE WITH THE BENIN EMPIRE.

Abi you want to incur the wrath of the gods?

The Lagos state included

Majority of Lagos mainland, Ikorodu, Badagry and Epe that were never part of Lagos island or FCT intial plan by the colonial maters.

I am a landlord in Lagos so couldn't help but smile at this.

Are you aware that the Aworis are the original land owners in most of theze plaves you mentiond ?

Strangely enough they consider the Oba of Lagos they're supreme king

Napata77:


Look at this one.

Are you aware that the Benin Empire exchanged ambassadors with Portugal as early as the 1500s?

Are you aware that Benin city was one of the greatest and most beautiful cities IN THE WORLD in medieval times?

A city of which the UK Guardian wrote that:

''With its mathematical layout and earthworks longer than the Great Wall of China, Benin City was one of the best planned cities in the world when London was a place of ‘thievery and murder’.''

''Benin City, originally known as Edo, was once the capital of a pre-colonial African empire located in what is now southern Nigeria. The Benin empire was one of the oldest and most highly developed states in west Africa, dating back to the 11th century.

The Guinness Book of Records (1974 edition) described the walls of Benin City and its surrounding kingdom as the world’s largest earthworks carried out prior to the mechanical era. According to estimates by the New Scientist’s Fred Pearce, Benin City’s walls were at one point “four times longer than the Great Wall of China, and consumed a hundred times more material than the Great Pyramid of Cheops [in Egypt]”.

Situated on a plain, Benin City was enclosed by massive walls in the south and deep ditches in the north. Beyond the city walls, numerous further walls were erected that separated the surroundings of the capital into around 500 distinct villages.

Pearce writes that these walls “extended for some 16,000 km in all, in a mosaic of more than 500 interconnected settlement boundaries. They covered 6,500 sq km and were all dug by the Edo people … They took an estimated 150 million hours to construct, and are perhaps the largest single archaeological phenomenon on the planet”.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/18/story-of-cities-5-benin-city-edo-nigeria-mighty-medieval-capital-lost-without-trace

PLEASE, DON'T JOKE WITH THE BENIN EMPIRE.

Abi you want to incur the wrath of the gods?

ar we talking about beauty or walls here, we are talking about military calvary and political might

am ware dat benin kingdom was able to achieve all sort of feat Buh wen it comes to military mightand economic might benin kingdom no come.close to OYO empire

EBMedia:
Lagos Was Owned By The British For 99 Years - Rufai Oseni Shares Treaty Cession Document (Photo)

Arise TV News presenter and author, Rufai Oseni has added his voice to the recent tribal arguments amongst Lagosians over the 'ownership' of Lagos State, IGBERETV reports.

The argument got intense following the campaign of Labour Party's Lagos gubernatorial aspirant, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour whose mother is Igbo. Also, Labour Party's presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi who is from Anambra state won Lagos State in the just concluded presidential poll against former Lagos Governor Bola Tinubu.

In a tweet on Wednesday, March 15, Oseni said Lagos was a British colony until it was ceded to a Lagos Monarch

He went on to state that some of the developments in the state were made by the British. He also shared a photo showing the treaty cessation document between the then British government and Oba Dosunmu.

Oseni refused to acknowledge the positions that "Lagos is no man's land," or that "it is a Yoruba land".

He wrote;


https://twitter.com/ruffydfire/status/1635858309344313344?t=ZKhAlRe5s2LhDnO0l_av5Q&s=19


https://twitter.com/ruffydfire/status/1635857404176011265?t=LmbjWPpSTpMP-8Lawby3qg&s=19


https://twitter.com/ruffydfire/status/1635857052630220803?t=zA7IaHxl42hmfzsTHjnwtw&s=19


https://twitter.com/ruffydfire/status/1635901242470744065?t=wMbZxMnORAX7M3p5-OtbBw&s=19

https://igberetvnews.com/1440786/lagos-owned-british-99-years-rufai-oseni-shares-treaty-cession-document-photo/

This Rufai guy is dumber than I thought.

So Dosunmu is an Ebira man abi na Igbo man. As if the whole of Nigeria was not a colony of the British before independence. One would think people like him should know better, turning history upside down for what?


Nigeria was never a single entity before the British, the British also did not meet a vacant uninhabited Lagos. Why didn't they enter the Lagos treaty with the Obi of Onitsha or with the Etsu of Nupe?

Napata77:


Look at this one.

Are you aware that the Benin Empire exchanged ambassadors with Portugal as early as the 1500s?

Are you aware that Benin city was one of the greatest and most beautiful cities IN THE WORLD in medieval times?

A city of which the UK Guardian wrote that:

''With its mathematical layout and earthworks longer than the Great Wall of China, Benin City was one of the best planned cities in the world when London was a place of ‘thievery and murder’.''

''Benin City, originally known as Edo, was once the capital of a pre-colonial African empire located in what is now southern Nigeria. The Benin empire was one of the oldest and most highly developed states in west Africa, dating back to the 11th century.

The Guinness Book of Records (1974 edition) described the walls of Benin City and its surrounding kingdom as the world’s largest earthworks carried out prior to the mechanical era. According to estimates by the New Scientist’s Fred Pearce, Benin City’s walls were at one point “four times longer than the Great Wall of China, and consumed a hundred times more material than the Great Pyramid of Cheops [in Egypt]”.

Situated on a plain, Benin City was enclosed by massive walls in the south and deep ditches in the north. Beyond the city walls, numerous further walls were erected that separated the surroundings of the capital into around 500 distinct villages.

Pearce writes that these walls “extended for some 16,000 km in all, in a mosaic of more than 500 interconnected settlement boundaries. They covered 6,500 sq km and were all dug by the Edo people … They took an estimated 150 million hours to construct, and are perhaps the largest single archaeological phenomenon on the planet”.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/18/story-of-cities-5-benin-city-edo-nigeria-mighty-medieval-capital-lost-without-trace

PLEASE, DON'T JOKE WITH THE BENIN EMPIRE.

Abi you want to incur the wrath of the gods?

at the peak of Oyo empire it is bigger than the whole of southern nigeria

Iamgrey5:
Eko is not a village or a specific location.

Outside idumota area of Lagos given to the bini people by Aromire sub-clan of Awori, there's no place one can find bini traces in Lagos.

By the way, majority of these so called "binis" like Kosoko, Obanikoro, Eletu will stone you if you call them anything but Yorubas today.

Even Bini history is interwoven with that of the Yoruba but let's not even go there...

If we say Bini, Itshekiri are Yorubas they will never agree, it's just the same way Ikwerres are claiming they are not Igbos.


Everyone wants to maintain their identity and not be tagged with another and that's cool.

CBR100:



throughtout the 16years civil war (in no place was being mentioned ).....not even as peacemaker or anything

d only external.effort where dat of emir of sokoto and emir of bida which also fail to end the war....na the British dat was later able to create a cease fire....after the cease fire ekiti father their troops at imesi ile while ibadan station their at ikirun


OYO empire is too powerful for a kingdom lyk benin to be interfering in their war who born monkey

a lot of mistakes in your write up nobody won the war and the war is not just 1897, it was over 16years of conflict and war
the war was so big dat the ilorin conderate join, ilesha too join
and in no instance did Benin interfere who born monkey

And benin forces defeated oyo in ekiti during the parapo war

Benin wouldn't want to stop such war when it was beneficial to their economy
Read the screenshot

.

Okoroawusa:
Rufai Oseni has finally lost it.

lol...the guy sef.

Thebadpolitican:


And benin forces defeated oyo in ekiti during the parapo war

Benin wouldn't want to stop such war when it was beneficial to their economy
Read the screenshot

your screenshort say nothing both side both western ammunition ( because the war was the most advanced in western side through the use of modern ammunition)

ekiti both weaoon from.thd white through the Benin , while the Ibadan have their own way of getting it also
in no way did Benin interfere in the battle of OYO empire who born monkey